作者
Benjamin EJ Cooper, William E Lee, Ben M Goldacre, Thomas AB Sanders
发表日期
2012/8
来源
Public Understanding of Science
卷号
21
期号
6
页码范围
664-673
出版商
Sage Publications
简介
Introduction
Newspaper reports advocating dietary intake changes may impact on dietary choice and food related health beliefs. The scientific basis and quality of evidence underpinning these reports is uncertain.
Objective
To evaluate the scientific quality of newspaper reporting related to dietary advice.
Design
Articles offering dietary advice from the top ten selling UK newspapers for a randomly selected week were assessed using two established evidence grading scales: developed by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN).
Results
Of 111 dietary health claims identified, 72% and 68% (assessed by WCRF and SIGN criteria respectively) had levels of evidence lower than the convincing or probable categories that are recommended for dietary health claims.
Conclusions
Misreporting of dietary advice by UK newspapers is widespread and may contribute …
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BEJ Cooper, WE Lee, BM Goldacre, TAB Sanders - Public Understanding of Science, 2012